Word: suburb
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Dzintra Dowling, 37, lives in a three-bedroom house in the Chicago suburb of Brookfield with her two children, ages 15 and 10. She has been out of a job since last October, when she was laid off at International Harvester. Dowling is separated and gets no financial support from her husband. Her weekly unemployment check of $199 ran out weeks ago, and she is "down to my last $20." She is now considering what would be to her a drastic measure: applying for welfare. "This morning I sat down after my son had gone to school and just bawled...
Some of the jobless who stayed put are struggling to cope. From the Detroit suburb of Hazel Park, Larry Hampton, 26, sets out once or twice a week in his pickup truck to search the streets for scrap. Sheet metal brings a penny a pound; cast iron $45 a ton. On a good day, Hampton earns $15, and it keeps him busy. "I've just got too many bills and not enough money to pay them," says Hampton, who lost his job in a machine shop last November. "It's scary...
Robert London was a Ford car salesman with his share of the comforts of middle-class life in Southern California, He drove a leased Mazda RX 7, rented a pleasant apartment in the Los Angeles suburb of Glendale and had a closetful of sports jackets and ties. A bachelor, London spent almost all of his income, which in better times reached $2,000 a month...
...armed men in military uniform, actions the Duarte government defends as part of its progressive "land reform" policy. Recent press accounts have suggested new episodes--of 926 civilians massacred in one province less than two months ago, and of 19 lined up and shot in a San Salvadoran suburb early morning. Administration officials can dispute these accounts as propaganda supporting the rebels who have little to gain from under counting civilians killed. And they can voice their doubts about the Salvadoran left, especially since the dream of freedom in Sandinistan Nicaraugua seems less than realized. Yet we all must wonder...
...suburb of San Salvador last week, government security forces found 20 young men in 20 different houses. Students and workers, their parents said; "subversives," the government replied. Twenty more dead Salvadorans. Last month, 1500 Salvadoran military officers arrived in this country for training; two days ago, the administration announced a $55 million increase in military aid to that country's ruling junta. The worst thing of it, of course, is that people and dying for during to ask not to live in hell. But for Americans there is, or should be, another tragic sadness. Some--with more faith than reason...